Bells Quotes - page 5

You came to me just before the Christians rang their bells. The half-moon was rising looking like an old man's eyebrow or a delicate instep. And although it was still night when you came a rainbow gleamed on the horizon, showing as many colours as a peacock's tail. (Ibn Hazm)
I have seen a man in London, who I believe is now living, ring twelve bells at one time; two of them were placed upon his head, he held two in each hand, one was affixed to each of his knees, and two upon each foot; all of which he managed with great adroitness, and performed a vast variety of tunes. View quote
Joseph Strutt
According to the ritual of the Romish church, the bells were not only blessed and exorcised, but baptized as those above mentioned, and anointed with holy oil. After these ceremonies had passed it was believed that the evil spirits lurking in the air might be driven away by their sound. View quote
Joseph Strutt
4948. They agree like Bells; they want nothing but hanging. View quote
Thomas Fuller (writer)
From one bell all the bells toll. View quote
Dejan Stojanovic
Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music. View quote
Danger Mouse
If people want bells and whistles and all of that, there are bells and whistles available. If they don't want bells and whistles there are places to go where they are not available. View quote
Jim Lehrer
Our show doesn't rely on the typical whistles and bells, and smoke and mirrors. It relies mostly on the music. View quote
Juice Newton
If the right job came along, absolutely with bells on I would work in Sweden. View quote
MyAnna Buring
I remember the noise of the bells ringing at school as the effigy of Guy Fawkes we'd prepared earlier was carried out on a canvas stretcher, hoisted on to the huge bonfire and set alight. Then the revelry would begin. My school friends and I would all have sparklers we passed around, lighting one from another. View quote
Pippa Middleton
It has been remarked by foreigners that the English are particularly fond of bell-ringing; and indeed most of our churches have a ring of bells in the steeple, partly appropriated to that purpose. These bells are rung upon most occasions of joy and festivity, and sometimes at funerals, when they are muffled, and especially at the funerals of ringers, with a piece of woolen cloth bound about the clapper, and the sounds then emitted by them are exceedingly unmelodious, and well fitted to inspire the mind with melancholy... Ringing the bells backwards is sometimes mentioned, and probably consisted in beginning with the largest bell and ending with the least; it appears to have been practiced by the ringers as a mark of contempt or disgust. (Joseph Strutt)
I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives. View quote
Paul Engle
No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years. View quote
Shirley Bassey
I was a feral child. Always on the go. My mother used to sew bells into my dresses so they would know where I was. View quote
Sophie Kennedy Clark
I compose with bells a lot. Bells and breath. Both things you react to without thinking about it. Bells traditionally give us orders: come to the desk, the truck is backing up, the ice cream is here, it's time to go to church. They're sounds our brains are already associated with. View quote
Sxip Shirey
I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater. View quote
Tatiana Maslany
I do a lot of mixed martial arts - it's like unlimited fighting. I do Brazilian jujutsu, beach volleyball. I don't like my routine to get stale, so I also lift kettle bells and push cars. View quote
Victor Webster
My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days at Bells. I'd reckon they were solid, 6-foot days, and he'd tell me to wait on the shoulder. I'd see him coming through the barrel, and he'd just scream at me to go. I'd drop in, and he'd give me a hoot from behind - I've always loved it. View quote
Xavier Rudd
so much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos... So ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in. View quote
Leonard Cohen
Hell's bells, irony blows. View quote
Jim Butcher
Hell's bells. I don't call him the Fist of God as a pet name, folks. (Jim Butcher)
I'd had a key to the marina's locks at one time, but I'd lost track of it when I got shot, drowned, died, got revived into a coma, haunted my friends for a while, and then woke up in Mab's bed. (My life. Hell's bells.) View quote
Jim Butcher
Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you're reading. It is about what you're reading. View quote
Maureen Dowd
Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow; The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
How sweet on the breeze of the evening swells The vesper call of those soothing bells, Borne softly and dying in echoes away, Like a requiem sung to the parting day. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon